[quote user="CDarklock"]I was particularly amused by Albertson's, which had a horrible self-checkout system. I bought three cans of soup. I put them in the bag. The checkout said "please remove last item from bag". I removed a can of soup. "Please place the item in the bag." I put it back. Guess what? "Please remove last item from bag."[/quote]
I've had that happen to me all the time. Whenever it happens, though, I can motion to the person at the little podium that supervises all of the self-check machines and they'll override it since apparently it happens so much that they don't even bat an eyelash about it.
It doesn't seem that it's specific to one store, though -- I've been to probably four or five different chains that all use the same checkout system (same lady's voice, everything, the only difference being the store logos displayed and the color scheme), and it happens at all of them that use this system. Albertson's, Fry's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart...there are probably a couple I'm forgetting too.
Oh, and before I forget -- at an Albertson's once I wanted to buy garlic. Now, you'd think that would be a common enough produce item that it would be no problem, but when I went through the little picture-menu there 1) wasn't an appropriate category; 2) after going through every remotely possible category, garlic wasn't in any of them. I called to the attendant and they said that apparently garlic isn't in that menu so I guess that whenever anybody wants to buy some garlic via the self-checkout, someone has to come over and enter it for them. WTF?